Joanna M Picciotto

Devotion and Intellectual Labor
Editor of “Devotion and Intellectual Labor,” a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44.1 (2014) ....

Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England
17th-century intellectuals discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated, named, and commanded the creatures in Eden. Reinvented as the agent of innocent curiosity, Adam was central to the project of redefining contemplation as a productive, public labor. Picciotto argues that practical efforts to restore paradise generated the modern concept of objectivity and remade the a....

Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England (Harvard University Press, 2010)

Editor of “Devotion and Intellectual Labor,” a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44.1 (2014)

Essays

“The Republic of Letters and the Commonwealth of Learning,” in AHandbook of English Renaissance Studies, ed. John Lee, Wiley, forthcoming in 2017

“Implicit Faith and Reformations of Habit,” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46.3 (2016), special issue on Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation (September 2016)

“Milton and the People,” in Milton in the Long Restoration, ed. Ann Baynes Coiro and Blair Hoxby, Oxford University Press (July 2016)

“Circumstantial Particulars, Particular Individuals, and Defoe,” in Reflections on Sentiment: Essays in Honor of George Starr, ed. Alessa Johns, University of Delaware Press, 2016

“Reforming the Garden: The Experimentalist Eden and Paradise Lost,” English Literary History 72 (1), Spring 2005 (winner of the James Holly Hanford Prize for Best Article of the Year from the Milton Society of America)